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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing Jayjones says black people cannot do?
(a) Sing in public.
(b) Attend church in peace.
(c) Walk too fast.
(d) Look at a cop in the eyes.

2. Why is the narrator hesitant about D's request?
(a) She is supposed to babysit.
(b) She doesn't have the subway fare.
(c) She is not allowed to do what D asks.
(d) She knows her mother does not like D and would not invite her to dinner.

3. What does the narrator say is the effect of Tash's music?
(a) The lyrics bothered a lot of people.
(b) It made ladies cry.
(c) She does not mention Tash's music.
(d) It enlivened everyone.

4. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?
(a) She has to watch her two younger brothers.
(b) She was supposed to go to a birthday party that day.
(c) She does not feel well.
(d) She was supposed to go to the movies with a boy that day.

5. What is the narrator doing when she says she feels whole for the first time?
(a) Singing for the party guests.
(b) Snorting cocaine.
(c) Dancing with a very handsome young man.
(d) Standing on the stage in the amphitheater.

6. How does Tash refer to himself?
(a) The Queen.
(b) Tash.
(c) Sister.
(d) The Princess.

7. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?
(a) His swagger or energy.
(b) His depressed shuffling.
(c) His stutter.
(d) Any weight.

8. Why is Tash moved?
(a) He asked to get closer to his family.
(b) He is not moved.
(c) He is harrassed about being gay and Tash cuts the man.
(d) He is moved to a work camp.

9. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?
(a) To show solidarity with Tash.
(b) For some peace and quiet.
(c) Because then her mother couldn't make her babysit.
(d) She would be horrified to go to such a place.

10. What is it about the East Side train that makes the narrator and Neeka's family uneasy?
(a) The train is full of white people.
(b) The train is swaying and making them a little seasick.
(c) Not knowing exactly where they are supposed to get off.
(d) The tracks are really rough.

11. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?
(a) If they would like to roam with her.
(b) Why Neeka's mother looks down on her.
(c) If Tash was home yet.
(d) If D can come over for dinner.

12. What does Neeka fear?
(a) Her mother finding out.
(b) Being arrested.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Being beaten or raped.

13. Where do D, Neeka and the narrator get off the bus?
(a) At a friend's house where there is a party.
(b) At the mall.
(c) At D's cousin's house.
(d) Near a dark city park.

14. What does Neeka say about Tash?
(a) At least he is out of drugs in prison.
(b) He would not hurt a fly.
(c) He is scary.
(d) He has a bad temper, but would not do any more than slap a person.

15. Where do the girls walk?
(a) The the cousin's neighbor's house.
(b) To the basement where the party is going on.
(c) To an ice cream store.
(d) To a large amphitheater in the park.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Sly whenever Tash meets him?

2. What do Sly and his friend testify?

3. How does the narrator describe the prison guards?

4. What effect does Tupac's imprisonment have on him?

5. What does the narrator say is the loudest sound in the world?

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